With everything finished we wanted to upload one last video and some photos of the final looks of slowpoke!
Design
The second drawing is a diagram of the wiring for one of two motors.
Day Ten
With the robot finally finished we had only a few things left to do, we needed the controller, and a proper carrying case for it and the batteries. This turned out to be a bit more difficult than originally thought but after a few hours it was done and just needed to be painted.
Day Nine
We finally finished the touch ups and we painted the first coat. We was a bit of a challenge considering everything had to be cut perfectly and screwing it in was just awkward but it is finished at last!
Day Eight
We finally put together the metal parts on to the robot. Although it does not look fully ready it is actually ready to compete, all that is needed now is the finishing touches and it will be good enough for the robot competition. It took us a while to assemble everything together but the metal was good it was light enough to cut with scissors making the process a lot easier!
Day Seven
Finally we have built something. We actually started by fastening the motors to a piece of wood that went in between what we are using as the walls of the robot. After we finished everything we realized it needed wheels on the side to support it went it tipped to each side. Once we attached the extra wheels we were done for the day after a bit of testing it out that is. It is officially functional and almost ready to compete!
Day Six
Today not much work was done. We spent a lot of the time just make sure the motors worked and the wheels were tight enough. Besides testing we also came up with an improvement to the original design of the robot.
We decided that we would be a lot better like that since the other robots would be faster and the older design would not be able to defend itself from attacks to its rear side.
Day Five
We figured it was time to, at least, get the batteries for the robot so that we would be able to test out the body and frame that we make right away. We got two 12 volt batteries at Active Surplus for a relatively low price compared to other stores where we saw one battery for about 68 dollars. Since we were ready to try the motors out we figured we should build a case for the batteries too that way we would not have to worry about it later.
Day Four
The next logical step for us was to prepare the motors and attach the wheels. We figured this would be the easiest way to go that way we could just hook up the motors to the body and it would work from there. We went to home depot but they did not really have what we needed so we had to go to a specialty shop which just gave us the parts we needed for free! We just put the wheels straight on the end of the motors.
Day Three
We decided that we should start the wiring, so we used the instructions that were given on drop box to get a close estimate of what the wiring would look like. We made it so that the wires went from the batteries to the switch then to the motors themselves. We also had to ensure that we were able to detached the wires whenever needed to since we had to still build the frame and body afterwards. It did not take too long until we finally finished the wiring and even tested it out with the motors!
Day Two
Since we did not buy anything the day before we thought it was time to at least do some work. We sat down for a bit and came up with a few designs. We used Google sketch up to create 3D drawings of our robot. Also had decided on which motors we would get so that the next time we met we had something to start on.
Day One
To start our project, we decided to go straight to Active Surplus and see what we can buy right away. On the way there we were going to think of a design as well however when we got there we realized it was going to be much harder than we thought and so we went home with nothing that day. Now although we got nothing at Active Surplus we did in fact think of just a general idea of what we want our robot to be like. We know that we wanted the robot to be as powerful as possible with 12 volt batteries. We also decided that we were not going to the a generic 45 degree angle robot like a lot of other people, instead we thought of having the smallest possible angle at the front.
Intro.
Our team is composed of Evgeny, Andrew, and Chris. We are in Mr.Song's Grade Twelve Class and we decided to make a sweet Sumo Bot together!
Before we even started thinking about the robot we had decided we wanted to use the most powerful motors and try to find wheels with the most traction to go with them. With that in mind, we sort of knew our robot would definitely not be the fastest, so we decided to call it SlowPoke, and then the idea was born.
Before we even started thinking about the robot we had decided we wanted to use the most powerful motors and try to find wheels with the most traction to go with them. With that in mind, we sort of knew our robot would definitely not be the fastest, so we decided to call it SlowPoke, and then the idea was born.
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